I have played a little bit…each time there is an alpha update I go through the frst bit quickly to see how things have changed. But I haven't explored Cyseal properly - leaving all that for release. I have deliebrately not gone into any depth….

Considering it…interested…price (at least for EA) is a bit steep…and a lot of early feedback hasn't been all that stellar (although seems like folks here like it quite a bit or are enthusiastic about it). I'm overloaded with games too, since it seems like there's a game worth checking out every other day lately.

Only on release. I am not really a fan of Early Release. It might work for things like Minecraft, but for a RPG that I will probably just do a single play through, then I want to wait for the finished product.

I look forward to this game, but I've never gone for early access to a game.

Not that I wouldn't want to be a beta tester, I was a beta tester for Eschalon Book III and I liked it. But I took that like a part-time job, playing more than I would otherwise have done, making lengthy reports on a daily basis, including lists of grammar and spelling mistakes… I got a free copy of the game, but I believe that's the least you deserve if you are a committed beta tester.
I would do it again, but the Steam early access deal doesn't attract me. Some people in this thread have already picked up the game, but without really playing it and also without really beta testing it, only to get a taste. In the end, I don't think that's really useful to anyone, not the player and not the game maker.
I'm going to be conservative here and say I prefer the old system of everyone waiting for a big release date, bar a few beta testers who aren't seen or heard.

Early access seems great for procedurally generated 2D minecraft type games, at least in my experience (Craft the World, Starbound), but not so much with RPGs (based on general consensus and impressions.) Good for development probably. They are infinitely more complex games, in most cases, and I wait for release on Original Sin, Wasteland 2, etc.

I've done some testing with my alpha/beta access and I've been very impressed. I'm trying to avoid content so the final game is that much better so I focus on technical issues that would be distracting if not fixed. I also look at if the game if moddable or not and if I want to spend time doing that.

With the Beta, I'm impressed with how much they have done to make the core robust. Its got some hack/cheat detection but nothing like what Blizzard does I'm sure and isn't to aggressive like preventing you from continuing and just resets itself to a reasonable state. Also not so crazy about the call home support tool but I understand they are collecting testing stats.

I'm not against Early Access but an Early Access that is sold the same price as the final release NO WAY !
When I play an Early Access, I report all the bugs I find, and provide suggestions on how to improve the game, and often that kind of waste the game (because you may need to follow some instructions from the devs to test new stuff, and do several times the same missions to catch a bug, and so on, so it's not as fun, especialy with bugs, as the final game) so I'd expect to get some special price, like half the final price.

Originally Posted by GroNolife
I'm not against Early Access but an Early Access that is sold the same price as the final release NO WAY !
When I play an Early Access, I report all the bugs I find, and provide suggestions on how to improve the game, and often that kind of waste the game (because you may need to follow some instructions from the devs to test new stuff, and do several times the same missions to catch a bug, and so on, so it's not as fun, especialy with bugs, as the final game) so I'd expect to get some special price, like half the final price.

That's a pretty silly idea - everyone would then just buy the early access version, whether they wanted to wait for release or not - not to mention that it would piss off everyone who supported the game on Kickstarter and…